Andy Haldane
Executive Director
Financial Stability
Before taking up his current role, Andy set up and headed the Systemic Risk Assessment Division within the Financial Stability area of the Bank from 2005. His previous roles include: Head of the Market Infrastructure Division; Head of the International Finance Division; and a secondment to the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that he worked in Monetary Analysis, on various issues regarding monetary policy strategy, inflation targeting and Central Bank independence.
Andy was born on 18 August 1967 and is married with two children. His interests include football and cricket. Andy is co-founder of a charity 'Pro Bono Economics', which aims to broker economists into projects in the charitable sector.
Andy graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1988 with a BA in Economics. He went on to take an MA in Economics at the University of Warwick before joining the Bank in 1989.
Andy has written extensively on domestic and international monetary and financial stability, authoring around 80 articles and three books on issues including inflation targeting, central bank independence, international financial crises, financial stability frameworks and payment systems. He is a member of various international public policy committees, economics associations, editorial boards and academic advisory committees.
